economy

Colleen Donovan, Executive Director of the Washington state Farmers Market Association, talks about how markets help local economies. Visit the WSFMA's Website to find a Farmers Market near you. If you have a story idea for the PNW Ag Network, call (509) 547-1618, or e-mail gvaagen@cherrycreekmedia... Read More ...

On Tuesday, Central Washington’s Dan Newhouse and Central California’s Jim Costa penned a letter to congressional leadership urging the inclusion of critical water infrastructure in the upcoming COVID-19 stimulus package. The bipartisan letter was signed by 24 members of Congress. The lette ...

Jake Carpenter talks about how the business world is reacting to the spread of coronavirus. If you have a story idea for the Washington Ag Network, call (509) 547-1618, or e-mail gvaagen@cherrycreekradio.com

Finding solutions to provide economic and environmental sustainability is top-of-mind for farmers. Micheal Clements has more.         If you have a story idea for the Washington Ag Network, call (509) 547-1618, or e-mail gvaagen@cherrycreekradio.com...

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank both issued warnings that trade disputes could put a healthy global economic expansion in jeopardy.   An Associated Press report says U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin showed cautious optimism over the weekend that the U.S. a...

In 2016, many farmers were able to break even only because they had such large yields, record yields in some cases.   USDA Chief Economist Rob Johannson says that will likely be the case for 2017 as well, and it’s hard to keep relying on that.   “...

USDA Deputy Undersecretary for Trade Ted McKinney just completed a week-long trip to Colombia and Panama to survey how U.S. ag exports have succeeded in the two countries.   He said free trade agreements five years ago have brought U.S. e...

USDA’s forecast of agriculture exports is showing a little bit of drop from fiscal year 2017 to 2018.   Deputy Chief Economist Warren Preston says the primary cause of a $500 million expected drop is corn.   “We are projecting the value to be down from 2017 at $8.5 billion versus almo...

The fifth round of NAFTA renegotiations wrapped up last week and will now take a break through the holidays with the next meeting in late January in Montreal.   U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has been very frustrated with the process so far.  ...

A new report by the National Farmers Union says that farmers will take only 11.4 cents out of every dollar, on average, spent on Thanksgiving food.   The data was released in the Thanksgiving edition of NFU’s Farmers Share publication, and includes turkey farmers getting just five cents of every dollar spent on turkey, wheat farmers getting six cents on every dollar for rolls and dairy producers g